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A fire this evening has damaged the now vacant Alexander St. premises which for close to 50 years housed the Carman’s Steak House. One tweet called it a serious and dangerous fire but no one appears to have been hurt. Arthur Carman ran a steak house at this address, 26 Alexander, beginning in the 60s closing out his long tour as the genial host of grand evenings only in 2009. It is said that Carman’s was the restaurant that introduced Toronto to garlic bread. It’s a bit of Toronto trivia that seems as odd now as the Sunday closure of the TTC in the 30s. In Carman’s heyday the neighborhood was peopled day and night by television celebrities and imported performers related to CBC production just down the street. In the course of clambering all over the stucco home of Carman’s restaurant police and firefighters came across a baby raccoon and rescued it. We must assume that this darling creature is going back into the wild and will not become a 53 Division mascot. Picture: Twitter